Arrested the boss specializing in buying and selling hot goods online
After a period of surveillance, the police force ambushed and controlled two young men who specialized in buying and selling hot goods on a large scale online.
February 6,Thu Duc District Police,Ho Chi Minh City said it is temporarily detaining Nguyen Quoc Bao (born 1993, residing in Thu Duc district) and Le Tan Sy (born 1993, from Quang Nam) to investigate the act of illegally buying and selling support tools on a large scale.
Nguyen Quoc Bao
Le Tan Sy at the police station
According to the investigation records, at around 4:30 p.m. on February 3, Thu Duc District Police in coordination with the High-Tech Crime Prevention Police Department (C50), Ministry of Public Security, suddenly stopped the vehicle to conduct an administrative check on Bao at the Binh Trieu Bridge roundabout (Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Thu Duc District). After checking Bao's bag and trunk, the police seized many supporting tools, such as: Electric gun, 2 40cm long metal electric shock flashlights, 3 electric batons, 4 pepper sprays, handcuffs, etc.
Huge amount of support tools seized by police from "boss" Nguyen Quoc Bao
The police continued to inspect Bao's house on Kha Van Can Street, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Thu Duc District, seizing many more supporting tools, including: 312 electric shock flashlights of various brands, 9 metal handcuffs, 20 pepper sprays, 30 electric guns, 1 box containing 3 bullets, 20 electric whips, 6 electric gun bullets, 4 electric shock flashlights, 38 electric shock flashlights...
At the police station, Bao confessed to organizing the sale of "hot goods" via social networks since February 2017. Bao often ordered through the website: 1688.com from a young man (about 30 years old) in the North. After the transaction, Bao had the goods delivered by this subject via passenger bus from the North to the South.
After buying the goods, Bao created a website: congtutuve.com to sell "hot goods" at very high prices. Seeing that buying and selling support tools was easy to make money, Bao hired Sy to deliver the goods to customers with a salary of 5 million VND/month. Bao bought a total of about 1,600 types of support tools, earning about 320 million VND.
Based on Bao's testimony, the police arrested Sy at a house on Street 4, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc District. Upon checking his residence, the police discovered 4 electric shock flashlights.
